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Israeli cardiac surgeons from Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Save a Child's Heart (SACH) and Zambian surgeons perform open-heart surgery on a child in an operating room at National Heart Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, on July 14, 2026. (Courtesy/Save a Child's Heart)
August 1, 2026, 9:15 am
In Zambia, Israeli team helps train country’s first generation of pediatric cardiac surgeons
Save a Child’s Heart program mentors hospital staff with 6-year fellowship, recently donated crucial new equipment; group has helped 8,500 kids and trained 160 doctors worldwide
By Diana Bletter
Dr. Nir Asch, a doctor and researcher in the psychiatric department of Rambam Health Care Campus. (Courtesy/Rambam Spokesperson's Office)
February 19, 2026, 10:35 am
In breakthrough, Israeli scientists use deep-brain stimulation to counter schizophrenia
Novel study by researchers at the Rambam Health Care Campus could help 21 million people worldwide suffering from the severe lifelong mental disorder
By Diana Bletter
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir meets with troops wounded in Syria, at Sheba Hospital in central Israel, November 28, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 30, 2025, 3:32 pm
Surgeons save soldier wounded in Syria who has a bullet lodged in his heart
Rambam hospital in Haifa says two soldiers who arrived in critical condition are now stable; doctors describe ‘complex’ operation that left the bullet in place for now
By Diana Bletter and Emanuel Fabian
Prof. Abd Al-Roof Higazi, director of the Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Division at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem (Courtesy/Hadassah Medical Center)
September 10, 2025, 5:48 am
Israeli plasma filter promises cutting-edge solution to life-threatening bleeds
ClearPlasma device gets rid of anti-clotting proteins in blood that can endanger trauma victims or surgery patients, researcher says, marking rare advance in oft-overlooked field
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Nathalie Q. Balaban, left, with Dr. Raya Faigenbaum-Romm in Balaban's microbiology lab at the Racah Institute of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy/Zohar Binyamin)
August 26, 2025, 6:01 pm
Using novel method to compare subgroups, Israeli researchers unlock bacteria’s secrets
Hebrew University scientists say their ‘Microcolony-seq’ tool could lead to more precise targeting of antibiotics and vaccines and become a boon to public health
By Diana Bletter
Michael Galbard, 69, who was given a new treatment for a pulmonary embolism at Hadassah Medical Center. (Courtesy: Hadassah Medical Center)
January 3, 2023, 9:44 pm
No-knife procedure to avoid some open heart surgeries is now in Israel
Pulmonary embolisms that can’t be treated by drugs can now be sucked out by tech newly deployed at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital — instead of requiring invasive operation
By Nathan Jeffay
Tel Aviv University brain immunologist Prof. Lior Mayo (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)
September 1, 2022, 1:31 pm
Brain tumors vanish in mice after Israeli study finds and destroys ‘power source’
Work starting on human drug after researchers discover specific brain cells are giving glioblastoma tumors energy and, when removed, tumors wither
By Nathan Jeffay
The world’s most protected blood bank, newly opened in Israel (courtesy of American Friends of Magen David Adam)
May 2, 2022, 9:26 pm
Israel opens world’s most protected blood bank, rocket-proof and underground
Blood is a ‘strategic asset,’ so $135M. Magen David Adom facility has thick concrete walls and defense against missiles, biological and chemical attacks, earthquakes, cyberterror
By Nathan Jeffay
A nurse in Haifa's Bnai Zion Medical Center's coronavirus ward (Courtesy Micha Brikman)
October 5, 2020, 6:39 am
Faces from the frontlines: Photographer at hospital captures COVID-19 ‘angels’
Micha Brikman sets up studio outside coronavirus ward to document health workers before and after their shifts; also lingers on behind-the-scenes workers, medical clowns
By Jessica Steinberg
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in Istanbul, December 13, 2017. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)
May 20, 2018, 2:35 pm
Suffering chest pains, Abbas taken to hospital for the third time in a week
Sources say PA leader had trouble walking, has fever and may have pneumonia; his office says he is following up on ear surgery from last week
By ToI Staff
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